5 papers
"Why SuaCode?": Understanding African Students' Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course
Michael Addo, Nana Maryam Munagah, Victor Kumbol +2
Computer programming MOOCs are instrumental in providing students with high-quality instruction in areas where there is limited access. They are especially beneficial to post-secon…
Eskwai for Students: Generative AI Assistant for Legal Education in Ghana
George Boateng, Philemon Badu, Patrick Agyeman-Budu +6
Recent advances in generative AI have shown their potential to be leveraged for legal education. Yet, work on the development and deployment of such systems for legal education in…
Adesua: Development and Feasibility Study of an AI WhatsApp Bot for Science Learning in West Africa
George Boateng, Evans Atompoya, Philemon Badu +4
Sub-Saharan Africa faces persistently high student-teacher ratios and shortages of qualified teachers, limiting students' access to personalized learning support and formative asse…
NSMQ Riddles: A Benchmark of Scientific and Mathematical Riddles for Quizzing Large Language Models
George Boateng, Naafi Ibrahim, Samuel John +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown good performance on various science educational benchmarks, demonstrating their potential for use in science and mathematics education. Yet,…
Kwame 2.0: Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI Teaching Assistant for Large Scale Online Coding Education in Africa
George Boateng, Samuel Boateng, Victor Kumbol
Providing timely and accurate learning support in large-scale online coding courses is challenging, particularly in resource-constrained contexts. We present Kwame 2.0, a bilingual…